In the book, he noted how Western humanity slowly drove itself crazy via living in cities with boxed dwellings, driving in steel and glass-enclosed cars at 60 mile per hour, walking on concrete and rarely able to venture out of its concrete jungle to the serendipity of the wilderness--from which all humans evolved over millions of years.
Thus, humans in cities suffered a loss of their natural rhythms, their natural "vibrations' that worked within the realm of nature. As they lost touch with nature, they became more and more "un-harmonic' with their eco-system. Some take weekends off to sit by a river, or in the wilderness via camping or by the beach to "reharmonize' their vibrations. They learned how to cope with their city environment.
Most city dwellers, cannot travel out into the wilderness, therefore, they remain "un-harmonic', and spiritually and physically distressed. Those individuals found ways to cope by smoking, drinking, drug usage, overeating and a dozen other activities to cope with their "distress' or lack of internal harmony with nature. Obviously, they all suffer a form of emotional, spiritual and physical disharmony that degrades their quality of life with headaches, stress, angry and a myriad of problems they can never figure out, nor can they solve as long as they live in the city.
The fact is, if you read Desmond Morris' The Naked Ape or Robert Audrey's African Genesis and Territorial Imperative, we remain animals, albeit animals that think, yet we require the natural vibrations of the wilderness in order to remain mentally, physically and spiritually connected and healthy.
Cities breed a collective unhealthiness featured every evening on the news in every major city in the world. The bigger the city, the more killings and other aberrant behaviors. The smaller the city, the less the mayhem. And, when you visit cities of less than 1,000, they suffer virtually no crime whatsoever. Everybody knows each other and community binds them to a common tribe and identity.
If we, as a civilization allow another 100 million people to be added to America, and then, another 100 million and 200 million beyond that, we shall see our civilization delivered into a kind of "madness' or unhealthiness heretofore never experienced in the United States. You can see the results in Mexico City with 24 million, or in 28 million in Tokyo, Japan, or Mumbai, India with 18 million, San Paulo, Brazil with 17 million, Shanghai, China with 14 million, Los Angeles with 13 million.
I have visited those places. Pretty depressing on every level! Do we want that for our country, our cities, and our civilization? I would venture to say that you are rotating your head in the negative. What are you going to do about it?
Would you agree with my friend John Muir? "Tell me what you will of the benefactions of city civilization, of the sweet security of streets---all as part of the natural up-growth of man towards the high destiny we hear so much of. I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found. If the death exhalations that brood the broad towns in which we so fondly compact ourselves were made visible, we should flee as from a plague. All are more or less sick; there is not a perfectly sane man in all of San Francisco."
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